From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: dxmm@albury.nospam.net.au
Subject: Re: Nimoy on Night Gallery, Shatner at Wal Mart

On 13/07/14 12:52, Wiseguy wrote:
> Daniel  wrote in
> news:N19wv.384110$OF6.314089@fx19.iad:
>
>> On 12/07/14 10:04, Your Name wrote:
>>> In article , D. Stussy
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Will Dockery"  wrote in message
>>>> news:e5851c23-5a65-4edd-8729-531126c361a6@googlegroups.com...
>>>>> Leonard Nimoy's big Night Gallery turn, he sure was convincing at
>>>>> playing smugly corrupt characters, it seems. This one is so much
>>>>> like his role in a Columbo episode I recently caught.
>>>>>
>>>>> Shatner's T.J. Hooker is at Wal Mart, several seasons at low
>>>>> prices.
>>>>>
>>>>> A shame all of the 1970s passed with these guys missing doing Star
>>>>> Trek in their mid-prime of life.
>>>>
>>>> Not all.  Wasn't the first Star Trek movie filmed in 1979?  IMDB
>>>> thinks so....
>>>
>>> Released in 1979, but probably filmed in 1978. Either way they were
>>> trying to cash-in on Star Wars in 1977.  :-)
>>>
>> Either way, that means "A shame all of the 1970s passed" from above
>> isn't exactly correct!! :-)
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
> It was released in December 1979, so it was a 10 year period bewteen live-
> action Star Treks.  The original statement was essentially correct.
>
There are those that argue that the '70's actually ends on 31/12/1980 
.... yes, the end of  1980, so the 1978 year of filming was only about 
3/4th of the way through the '70's!!

Daniel

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